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2 instances of DMA Controller
Name: Pavesa Date: June 19, 2003 at 12:59:31 Pacific OS: Win 98SE CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 1600 256 MB
Comment:
I recently upgraded my motherboard, CPU, memory and hard-drive without a new Win 98SE reinstall - problem is it takes weeks to set things up again (for various reasons).
In Device Manager, I now have 2 instances of Direct Memory Access Controller the second (lower) of which has a yellow exclamation mark. Can anyone advise on whether this should just be deleted? Looking in Accessories, System Tools, System Information, Hardware Resources and DMA I get only one instance of Direct Memory Access Controller on DMA 4. DMA 2 has the floppy disk drive controller whilst my old Soundblaster AWE ISA card is occupying DMA's 3 and 7. The rest are all free.
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2nd hard drive is missing
